BANGKOK (AP) — Hundreds of people attended the funeral on Thursday of a senior monk who was fatally shot by soldiers in an incident that could undermine the cozy relationship that Myanmar’s military government has tried to maintain with the country’s Buddhist clergy. The body of 78-year-old monk Bhaddanta Munindarbhivamsa was carried on a vehicle […]
May 30—Residents and officials across the Merrimack Valley reacted to the jury’s guilty decision in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump Thursday night with a gamut of emotions from surprise to relief, disappointment to worry. “Truly at a loss for words,” local Andover historian Tom Adams said. “This is a historic day.” […]
A Washington Post investigation published today revealed at least 122 priests, sisters and brothers assigned to 22 Indian boarding schools in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest since the 1890s were accused of sexually abusing Native American children in their care. Most of the documented abuse occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, affecting more than 1,000 […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include senior church officials suspected of shielding predatory priests for decades and failing to report their crimes to law enforcement. Louisiana State Police carried out a sweeping search warrant last week at the […]
United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, removing a rule forbidding “self-avowed practising homosexuals” from being ordained or appointed as ministers. Delegates voted 692-51 at their General Conference — the first such legislative gathering in five years. That overwhelming margin contrasts sharply with […]
On Wednesdays, the support group meets over Zoom. The members talk about their lives, their religious families and their old parochial schools. But mostly, they are there to talk about the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic nuns. The topic deserves more attention, they say. The sexual abuse of children by Catholic […]
A former associate pastor at St. Philip Catholic Church in Franklin who was removed from that position amid an investigation of sexual misconduct involving a youth is now charged in the case. Juan Carlos Garcia has been booked into the Williamson County Jail with a $2 million bond, according to jail records. Garcia was indicted […]
International House of Prayer-Kansas City founder Mike Bickle “more likely than not” engaged in inappropriate behavior that included sexual contact and clergy misconduct, according to the findings of an investigation. That behavior was “an abuse of power for a person in a position of trust and leadership,” a report of the findings, released Wednesday, said. […]
A Utah legislator unveiled a proposal on Tuesday that he says strikes a balance between clergy-penitent privilege for religious confessions and the need to report suspected abuse. The bill, HB432, introduced by freshman lawmaker Rep. Anthony Loubet, R-Kearns, and sponsored by Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, in the Senate, would amend the state’s child abuse […]
For the second year in a row, lawmakers considering legislation that would add clergy to the list of people mandated to report abuse or neglect in Washington state. The newest version of the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Noel Frame, D-Seattle, and co-sponsored by nine other Senate Democrats, had a public hearing Thursday in the Human […]